Image: Deconvolved image of Ceres. The rotational axis is aligned with vertical. The dark feature with a bright spot in its center serves as reference meridian for mapping (see CeresMap.png). The ...

A new color map of dwarf planet Ceres, which NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has been orbiting since March, reveals the diversity of the surface of this planetary body. Differences in morphology and color ...

The appearance of small bodies in the outer solar system could be deceiving. Asteroids and dwarf planets may be camouflaged with an outer layer of material that actually comes from somewhere else.

This mosaic shows Ceres' Occator crater from an altitude of 915 miles (1,470 km) imaged by NASA's Dawn spacecraft. Occator is 60 miles (90 km) across and 2 miles (4 km) deep and home to the brightest ...

When NASA’s Dawn spacecraft visited Ceres, it revealed a world far more complex than anyone expected. Beneath its surface lie salty deposits, possible reservoirs of liquid water, and chemistry that ...

NASA's Dawn spacecraft is now closer to Ceres than ever before. Ceres is the largest known asteroid and the only dwarf planet in the inner solar system. After Dawn entered orbit around Ceres in March ...

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — After a nearly eight-year journey, a NASA spacecraft on Friday flawlessly slipped into orbit around Ceres in the first visit to a dwarf planet. The robotic Dawn craft will circle ...

At first glance, Ceres looks like one of the least likely places to harbor life. The dwarf planet, sitting quietly in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is now a cold, nearly airless, grey ...

Was the dwarf planet Ceres once an ocean world like Europa and Enceladus? If so, how did it become the cratered and icy world we see today? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy ...